Stephen Grey

Articles by Stephen Grey

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The fog of war

  • 13 August 2009
  • 2 comments

In 2001, British troops marched into Afghanistan on a mission to combat al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban. Eight years and thousands of ruined lives later, they remain mired in conflict, with no sign of a way out. What are our soldiers fighting and dying for? How long will they stay?

Understanding the Taliban

  • 24 April 2008
  • 7 comments

Rethinking the war in Helmand has made the British army revise some of its basic assumptions. Working with "reconciled" Taliban commanders is part of that new strategy

Show trials and errors

  • 06 December 2007

The Guantanamo Files: the Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison Andy Worthington Pluto Press, 352pp, £16.99

The torture continues

  • 18 October 2007
  • 1 comment

Observations on rendition

Missing presumed tortured

  • 20 November 2006

More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites", what happened to the rest?

Our man in Baghdad

  • 27 February 2006

My Year In Iraq: the struggle to build a future of hope L Paul Bremer III Simon & Schuster, 417pp, £18.99 ISBN 0743273893

Torture's tipping point

  • 19 December 2005

Eighteen months after Stephen Grey first described "extraordinary rendition" in these pages, he reflects on why the world finally woke to the story and adds a warning

Iraq: our fatal blunder

  • 03 October 2005

British forces in the south of Iraq have ceded power to Islamic radical militias. The police recruits they have armed and trained are now their enemies

Mint tea with the terrorists

  • 11 April 2005

Under US law, it is an offence to give any "aid or counsel" to groups such as Hamas or Hezbollah. But some westerners say it's time to talk to even the most militant Islamists

We blundered in. Let's not betray them too

  • 31 January 2005

Iraq elections - Stephen Grey argues that Britain has completely failed in Iraq and that if we keep taking over other countries, we need a revived Colonial Office to do the job properly

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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